Huck Finn

The newest edition of Huckleberry Finn is replacing the word "ni--er" with "slave." Since, I suppose, we should be much more comfortable with the idea of owning other humans and treating them like animals simply because of their skin color than we are of a racial epithet. Of course.

If your kid can't handle the word, or discussion of what the word means within the context of the book, maybe he or she isn't ready to read the book. Whoever said it was a kid's book anyway? Why not just fucking replace Jim with the big mouse from Chuck E. Cheese, make everything warm and fuzzy?

And yet, we don't mind throwing the word "n---er" around on tv, do we?